Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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